Recognize Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex USB interface (0bc2:5021)

[jmehnle]

I just bought a new Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1TB USB disk drive. smartmontools don't recognize it, although it seems to work nicely when the device type is explicitly specified:

$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdc
smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

/dev/sdc: Unknown USB bridge [0x0bc2:0x5021 (0x148)]
Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.

Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary

$ lsusb | grep 5021
Bus 002 Device 036: ID 0bc2:5021 Seagate RSS LLC

$ sudo smartctl -i -d sat /dev/sdc
smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     ST1000LM002-9VQ14L
Serial Number:    Z0506D9H
Firmware Version: CC94
User Capacity:    1,000,204,886,016 bytes
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   8
ATA Standard is:  ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Local Time is:    Tue Dec 21 00:14:48 2010 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

[Christian Franke]

r3227.

[Christian Franke]

r3227.

[jmehnle]

I applaud you for the quick fix! Thank you.